Improvement in children s carriages



U Irun STATE s PAT-no irgggrirg JULIUS BElN AND W IILAM ULRICH, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. 4

IMPROVEMENT IN CHiLDRENs'cAnrniAcilas'.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 74,284, dated Februaryll, 1868.

To all 'whom it may concern.'

B e it known that we, J ULIUs BEIN and WILLIAM ULRICH, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Childs Garriage; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled inthe art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a side elevation, partly in section, of our improved childrens carriage. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same, showing the seat and top reversed. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same, showing the top supported above the middle of the carriage. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section ofthe same, the plane of section being indicated by the line x x, Fig. 3. Y

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding,parts.

This invention relates to a new ohildrens carriage, which is so arranged that the seat l and top can be reversed, and that the latter may be supported above the iniddleof the carriage, to act as a sun-umbrella.

The object of the invention is to provide a childrens carriage, so that the top and seat `may be reversed, to let the child be protected from the rays of the sun or from wind.

The invention consists in making the two ends of the carriage-body nearly alike, and in alsomaking the supporting and back boards of the seat nearly alike, or so that they correspond to the shape of the respective ends of the body.

,The seat is thus made L-shaped, and at the junction of its boards are arranged pins, projecting from the ends into grooves that are arranged in the sides of the body. Around these pins the seat can swing, so that when it is pushed to either end of the body, that board nearest to such end can be turned up, so as to form the back of the seat, while the other board will form the seat. When the seat is moved toward the opposite end of the 'carriage-body, that board which was the seat will be the back, and the former back will become the seat.

The invention also consists in supporting catch.

A, in the drawing, represents the bodyof a childrens carriage, made of suitable inaterial, of suitable size and shape. It is sup* ported upon three or more wheels, B B, and is provided with Vabar or bars, C, for drawing or pushing it forward. D is the seat.l The sameis L-shaped, consisting of two boards, a and b, both suitably upholstered or cush` ioned, as may be desired.V From each end of the seat, at the junction of its two boards, projects a pin, c, which fits into a groove, d, inthe adjoining side board of the carriage body. The seat can be moved in these grooves to either end of the 'carriage-body, and can be turned on the pin, so that it can .be adjusted in either `end of the body, inthe manner shown in Figs. 1 and 2. E` is the carriage-top, constructed in the ordinary or suitable manner. The bows c e are pivoted to plates f, which, in stead of being iirmly secured to the carriage-body, are `fastened or jointed to stift' 'bars F, which are pivoted to the side boards of the body, in the manner shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The top can thus be swung to either end of the carriagebody, as indicated in the drawings, and can be fastened by means of spring-catches g, as shown.

`By having a bent plate, IL, attached to one of the plates f which `passes through a slot' in the bar F, and by means of a thumbscrew, i, the top can be always fastened over the middle of the carriage-body, substantially as shown inFig. 3. Thus it will be seen the seat, as well as the top, can be reversed on the body of the carriage, so that a child can be easily protected from injurious or annoying eiects of the sunor wind.-

1 We claim` as new and desire to securev by Letters Patent- 1. In the ebilds carriage7 the reversible seam and top, constructed substantially as herein specified.

2. Pivoting the top E of a ehilds earriage to bars F F, which are pivoted to the sides of the carriage-body, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. Providing the L-shaped seat D of a,

ehilds carriage with pins c c, which t into grooves d in the. sides .of the carriage-body, substantially as deseribed,'s0 that the seat can be easily reversed, as set forth.

JULIUS BEIN. WILLIAM ULRICH.

Witnesses:

H. BARKHORN, H. F. KRAFT. 

